ON MEDICAL CHEMISTRY. 19 
much will be effected, and the task will be easier for those who 
are to follow us. 
The time, perhaps, is not yet come when so much is required 
of the student of veterinary science as of him who is, by a proud 
distinction, called the medical student : but I can tell you, that 
the former treads closely on the heels of the latter ; and I have seen 
in most towns that which I hope and believe is still increasing, the 
existence of a cordial friendship between the members of this and 
the other profession ; and thus it will be, if the veterinary student 
is solicitous to acquire information, and comports himself so as to 
merit the esteem of the wise and good. It is not the calling or 
the vocation w'hich commands respect ; but the conduct of the man 
in it. One of our best ’writers has said, that “ It is the glorious 
privilege of Englishmen that no rank or condition of life precludes 
their attaining to the highest honours if they have talent.” 
The time is fast coming when much more will be required of 
the veterinary surgeon than now is, and then he will take his proper 
standing in society. Be anxious, then, to improve. There never 
w r as a truly sensible man who was satisfied with the knowledge 
he possessed ; and the greater the difficulty to be overcome, the 
more honourable the attempt to achieve it. 
It is only by men of scientific attainments that the veterinary 
art has been, and can be successfully advanced. Do you ask for 
proofs ? I refer you to the works of those of our own day — Pro- 
fessor Coleman, Moorcroft, Bracy Clark, Peall, Blaine, Percivall, 
Youatt, Goodwin, Turner, Stewart, W. Spooner, cum multis aliis. 
What a phalanx have we here ! But there are others who, 
although not authors, have, by their industry and their talents, 
earned for themselves the highest honours. What will you say 
when I name Assistant-Professor Sewell, and a John Percivall, 
a Field, a Castley, a Dick, and, last, but not least in my esti- 
mation, a Charles Spooner? These have all gained the laurel 
wreath, although with too many of them it is now blended with 
the cypress. 
[To be continued.] 
ON LIFE AND ORGANIZATION. 
By Mr. W. F. KARKEEK, Truro. 
In introducing this lecture to your notice, I do so with the 
greatest degree of diffidence, inasmuch as the nature of the living 
principle has never yet been discovered, and is very probably 
far beyond the reach of human investigation. 
